On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:21:35PM -0400, Nick Dokos wrote: > I keep getting soft lockups in mballoc code, running fsstress. > I'm running a 2.6.25.2 kernel, with 1.40.8 e2fsprogs. Here > is sample console output on a 2-cpu Opteron box with a 2Tb filesystem - > the two stack traces keep repeating every minute or so and the only > way to get out is to reset the box: What is the block size with which the file system is created. I would also suggest testing with the latest kernel and see if you can reproduce the same. While testing with the latest kernel please also use the below patch. http://repo.or.cz/w/ext4-patch-queue.git?a=blob;f=ext4-mballoc-fix-mb-_nornalize_request-for-1K-blksz.patch;h=f7b91a6186b7b469ad798ddc95e76ece69b47c24;hb=HEAD -aneesh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html